Mitch McConnell on reparations: “no one here now had slaves; we ain’t responsible for it.....”

[xxxbishopxxx]

The Democrats are the party that has benefited most from the ADoS demographic and should be the one to lead the effort to repair.

Many of us have no idea what history is and continue to get tricked.

Also, for the southern strategy believers, The “modern day” Democratic Party also came out and said fuck reparations (proven today as a direct quote from Obama) so what are you going to do now? Vote Libertarian?

If ya'll really wanted to do something, you would follow the Tea Party strategy. The Tea Party actually ran candidates for their agenda and took votes from the Republican party. Hell, they even won some local elections. If ya'll about that life, find a dem in weak district and jack their seat in Congress. AOC did it on running an "extreme" platform (and the seat she jacked was a dude that was supposed to be a shoo in). What's stopping someone from running on an ADOS platform in all black/majority black district, town, or city?

 

[Autobot8655]

Everything you said is true.

However, MLK lead protests, boycotts, sit-ins, expected people to vote. What exactly is the ADOS movement doing to advance the cause?

Let's wait and see. Let them get some momentum going. They have no funding other than small donations by grassroots folks.

The first meeting is in October in Kentucky. Why don't you go find out the plans?

Also, ADOS were well represented at the Reparation Committee hearing today.

Dont count them out just yet...remember MLK's people had haters too.

 

[Autobot8655]

If ya'll really wanted to do something, you would follow the Tea Party strategy. The Tea Party actually ran candidates for their agenda and took votes from the Republican party. Hell, they even won some local elections. If ya'll about that life, find a dem in weak district and jack their seat in Congress. AOC did it on running an "extreme" platform (and the seat she jacked was a dude that was supposed to be a shoo in). What's stopping someone from running on an ADOS platform in all black/majority black district, town, or city?

Tea party had lots of funding. AOC went door to door.

ADOS just gained momentum in March....give them time!

Let's see what happens.

 

[xxxbishopxxx]

Let's wait and see. Let them get some momentum going. They have no funding other than small donations by grassroots folks.

The first meeting is in October in Kentucky. Why don't you go find out the plans?

Also, ADOS were well represented at the Reparation Committee hearing today.

Dont count them out just yet...remember MLK's people had haters too.

Fair enough

But remember, not everything is about spending money. The sit-ins and the boycotts were about NOT spending money and disrupting businesses until they learned the error of their ways.

 

[Mello Mello]

Wow

 

[xxxbishopxxx]

the list missed one:

And if I wanted to be a dick about it...It was a Republican President who allowed it.

I heard one quote that the 300.00 paid was the equivalent of around a million I believe...I need to check that one to be sure I heard correctly.

NATION
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Did You Know: US Gov’t Paid Reparations…To Slave Owners

Written By Kirsten West Savali
Posted May 31, 2014


Since writer and cultural critic Ta-Nehisi Coates made his compelling “Case For Reparations” in The Atlantic, it has been a hot-button topic and the questions have come fast and furious.

What is reparations? What should it look like? How has slavery and subsequent systems of oppression had a continuing impact on Black Americans?


National Archives and Records Administration, The District of Columbia Emancipation Act paved the way to compensate slave owners for their “loyalty to the Union” and for the loss of income incurred by freeing slaves.


On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this law came 8 1/2 months before President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The act brought to a conclusion decades of agitation aimed at ending what antislavery advocates called “the national shame” of slavery in the nation’s capital. It provided for immediate emancipation, compensation to former owners who were loyal to the Union of up to $300 for each freed slave, voluntary colonization of former slaves to locations outside the United States, and payments of up to $100 for each person choosing emigration.

Over the next 9 months, the Board of Commissioners appointed to administer the act approved 930 petitions, completely or in part, from former owners for the freedom of 2,989 former slaves.

RELATED:

Rep. Keith Ellison: ‘We Were Held In Slavery Longer Than We’ve Been Free’
NewsOne Readers Take Controversial Stand On Reparations
In an exclusive, comprehensive interview with NewsOne, United States Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) addressed reparations and the argument that the United States is legally liable to repay African Americans for slavery and its children: Reconstruction, Jim and Jane Crow, and the structural, systemic racial inequality of the Civil Rights and Reagan eras:


I say we need to study this stuff, so we can dig into it and learn more about it. I mean, if four generations ago, your great-great-great grandmother was in an accident, through no fault of her own, that she didn’t get compensated for, can you sue for that today? The law would say no because there’s a statute of limitations on it. But if someone killed your loved one, can you sue for that? Well, yes, you possibly could, because the statute of limitation on that is quite a bit longer — if there is one.

But before people start screaming for money, saying, “Oh, look at what you did,” we need to understand slavery more. They sold slaves on the [National] Mall. Presidents and leaders were afraid that when foreign dignitaries visited, they would see that and be embarrassed. There’s documented evidence of that fact that I just stated.

…

We were held in slavery longer than we’ve been free: There are whole generations who lived their whole lives, had kids and died. Those kids lived their whole lives in slavery, had kids and died. Their kids lived their whole lives in slavery and died again. In slavery. There have only been about four generations after slavery.

And we have to look at White society as well, how this institution of oppression made good, decent human beings that God created into cruel despots. It supported patriarchy and sexism. It created this myth around White womanhood. These people became cruel and mean in order to preserve this institution.


Everyone was affected.

We have to go through the work to figure out what reparations is, that’s what I’m arguing for. I think it would be an important journey for our nation. Bottom line: We’re all Americans today, but you can’t heal a dirty wound, you have to clean it out first.

Read Rep. Ellison’s full interview here.

SEE ALSO: Did You Know: US Gov’t Found Guilty In Conspiracy To Assassinate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

REPARATIONS

 

[Drayonis]

The same negroes in here talking about reparations for ADoS isn’t feasible are the same ones marching for illegal immigrants and promoting LGBT rights

You actually have brothers in here making every excuse under the sun for reparations for people of the captivity but will defend the government giving billions to every other group.

No one is doing that. If you read, most are attacking the ways you are going about it.

People are taking issue with not voting over it because it puts you further away from your goal while also keeping the worst "Mitch the Bitch McConnels" in office.

It seems like more of a concerted effort to keep black folks from voting than actually attaining reparations.

 

[Watcher]

The dems should really spite him by standing behind reparations now!
That'll show them!

There has been movement in the Democratic Party yet none of you praise for Democrats for starting down the path.

You are perfectly ok with Mitch and co running the show forever and won’t get behind the people who will actually bring change.

 

[Cross]

Fuck reparations how about return the land that was stolen from our people.

 

[Watcher]

But how does he differ from Biden?

“I do not buy the concept, popular in the ‘60s, which said, ‘We have suppressed the black man for 300 years and the white man is now far ahead in the race for everything our society offers. In order to even the score, we must now give the black man a head start, or even hold the white man back, to even the race.’ I don’t buy that.

“I don’t feel responsible for the sins of my father and grandfather,” he continued at the time. “I feel responsible for what the situation is today, for the sins of my own generation. And I’ll be damned if I feel responsible to pay for what happened 300 years ago.”

--Joe Biden; People Paper, a Delaware-based weekly newspaper, in 1975

Shit...Biden's comment is more crass and insensitive than McConnell's comment than anything.

Why are you focused on Biden? Mitch McConnell runs the senate.

Biden is 1 of 22 candidates.

Buts that’s all you got. Pick the one clown out 22 and say “see their just the same!”

This is why a lot of us don’t take you all serious. You don’t give a fuck about ADOS. You are just using it as cover to advance your agenda.

 

[xfactor]

No one is doing that. If you read, most are attacking the ways you are going about it.

People are taking issue with not voting over it because it puts you further away from your goal while also keeping the worst "Mitch the Bitch McConnels" in office.

It seems like more of a concerted effort to keep black folks from voting than actually attaining reparations.

Plenty of brothers are doing that. What will we ever get by throwing away votes on parties and not voting candidates that will provide policy in our interests?

I also find it funny that brothers are saying don’t vote as a form of protest, the same methodology that spearheaded the Civil Rights Movement, because if we don’t vote, we’ll have more of Trump in office. That’s bullshit. He will be there anyway if they select him as proven last election.

Not voting is no more useless than wasting a vote on a party that has taken it for granted for over half a century without providing tangibles.

 

[xfactor]

Because people will say that is unfair, like they’re doing in South Africa now.

The sad part about this is if Trump offered reparations and no Democrat presidential candidate did, you’d still have people saying vote Democrat.

Fuck reparations how about return the land that was stolen from our people.

 

[Drayonis]

Plenty of brothers are doing that. What will we ever get by throwing away votes on parties and not voting candidates that will provide policy in our interests?

I also find it funny that brothers are saying don’t vote as a form of protest, the same methodology that spearheaded the Civil Rights Movement, because if we don’t vote, we’ll have more of Trump in office. That’s bullshit. He will be there anyway if they select him as proven last election.

Not voting is no more useless than wasting a vote on a party that has taken it for granted for over half a century without providing tangibles.

Then if voting means "NOTHING" then how can you use it as a bargaining chip?

 

[durham]

PLEASE VOTE in your city and State elections, in the Presidential primary Vote for one of the damn Democrats, that you rock with. If the voting attack is coordinated, instead of all this passive, Russian bot bullshit, just maybe we can get one of these Democrats to move more on our agenda.

This non voting shit is assinine.

 

[pimp1101]

PLEASE VOTE in your city and State elections, in the Presidential primary Vote for one of the damn Democrats, that you rock with. If the voting attack is coordinated, instead of all this passive, Russian bot bullshit, just maybe we can get one of these Democrats to move more on our agenda.

This non voting shit is assinine.

sellout

 

[d_the_inc]

I changed my status to white. yes.

Peace moor.

 

[Soul On Ice]

There has been movement in the Democratic Party yet none of you praise for Democrats for starting down the path.

You are perfectly ok with Mitch and co running the show forever and won’t get behind the people who will actually bring change.

Change that WE are enforcing them to make.
Remember, all of the big name nominees emphatically were opposed to reparations.

And even now their lip service isnt good enuff. Foh talking about doing a "study" to see if reparations should be given.

But keep playing with fire brahs. I dont give one fuck if the dumb cheeto gets 4 more years.

 

[WorldEX]

 

[Watcher]

Change that WE are enforcing them to make.
Remember, all of the big name nominees emphatically were opposed to reparations.

And even now their lip service isnt good enuff. Foh talking about doing a "study" to see if reparations should be given.

But keep playing with fire brahs. I dont give one fuck if the dumb cheeto gets 4 more years.

And you don’t give a fuck if change happens or not.

You have wasted the last 2 years being silent and now the election is around the corner it’s back to instantaneous demands.

Don’t worry you will get your wish and can go silent again.

 

[Watcher]

The ADOS crowd

Liar!!! White racist liberal piece of shit!

4 more years!

 

[Watcher]

ADOS - ‘we need more republicans in government to advance our agenda!’

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the only African American Republican in the Senate, says reparations for slavery are a "non-starter."

Scott said Wednesday that it would be too difficult to calculate who deserves compensation and who must pay for the institution of slavery and the years of discriminatory laws that followed its abolition.

"There's no question that slavery is a scourge on the history of America. The question is: Is reparations a realistic path forward? The answer is no," Scott said.

Scott made the comments when asked about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) dismissal of reparations as a viable policy idea. They also come as a House committee holds a historic hearing on the prospect of reparations.

 

[Soul On Ice]

And you don’t give a fuck if change happens or not.

You have wasted the last 2 years being silent and now the election is around the corner it’s back to instantaneous demands.

Don’t worry you will get your wish and can go silent again.

I been beating that change drum breh.
But because I'm a straight Black man, the dems dont have ANYTHING for me


I've been ignored for Pedro and his ghay handler.

 

[mailboxpimp]

Peace moor.

Peace!

 

[mailboxpimp]

I been beating that change drum breh.
But because I'm a straight Black man, the dems dont have ANYTHING for me


I've been ignored for Pedro and his ghay handler.

Black has no standing at law.

 

[mailboxpimp]

Fuck reparations how about return the land that was stolen from our people.

The land wasn't stolen from black people.

 

[Dannyblueyes]

Wow

Nobody's asking him to take responsibility. Just pay back wages to the descendants of the people who earned it.

 

[Dannyblueyes]

I've done the math.

Suppose for a minute that you don't take white terrorism, Jim Crow or any other injustice into account and only look at unpaid wages.

Now assume the absolute minimum time in bondage. (Ancestors arrived on the last "official" ship in 1807, had a child the following year who started work at age 6, worked 10 hours a day, 6 days a week. Died at age 40, but had a child who was born the day they died who continued to be enslaved until 1865).

Price out that labor at the federal minimum wage of $7.25/hr for 40 hours a week and $10.87/hr for 20 hours of overtime a week you would end up with a figure of roughly $1.2 million dollars. $2.4 million if both parents were slaves.

That's the absolute lowest number I could come up with and that's not even accounting for interest.

 

[Gods_Debris]

No

I wont vote if there is no sincere move towards a black agenda to help the bottom class of America which is composed of ADOS.

There is nothing "circular" about this.

Black people have been the only consistent voting block for the democrats for the last ~50-60 years with nothing to show for it but abject poverty, mass incarceration, discriminatory hiring practices and so on.

The circular component has been black people voting for democrats without receiving anything in return.

These fuck niggas know what they're doing.

See we are supposed to be the ones held hostage, not THEM.

See, instead of joining the chorus for what is right and just they are telling ADOS to shut up. The want of your support has nothing to do with protecting "us" its solely about "them and theirs". The nerve of these self-deluded punk ass niggas to act like we're the selfish ones for wanting:

Reparations:

Legal
In jurisprudence, reparation is replenishment of a previously inflicted loss by the criminal to the victim. Monetary restitution is a common form of reparation.

 

[deputy dawg]

Ta-Nehisi Coates: Reparations Are Not Just About Slavery But Also Centuries of Theft & Racial Terror

GREAT interview! (starts @ 15:41)
They do a news update for the 1st 15 mins., also worth listening to.
About Biden Coates says:

"Joe Biden says that he’s been involved with civil rights his entire career. It’s worth remembering Joe Biden opposed busing and bragged about it, you know, in the 1970s. Joe Biden is on the record as being to the right of actually the New Democrats in the 1990s on the issue of mass incarceration, wanted more people sentenced to the death penalty, wanted more jails. And so, you know, I’m not surprised. I mean, this is who Joe Biden is. You know there’s that saying: When somebody shows you who they are, believe them. This is who Joe Biden is."

 

[darth frosty]

 

[rude_dog]

Wow

That fucking idiot! It's disgraceful to have someone as stupid as him as the majority leader of the Senate. The way he spoke about the Civil War is totally incorrect. The War was never about freeing the slaves. The Confederacy started the war out of fear of losing their slave and/or the prevention of slavery expanding. The North went to war to keep the Union together. It was not their intention to fight over slavery. Someone of his academic achievement should know that. Hatred makes them stupid.

 

[sharkbait28]

I been beating that change drum breh.
But because I'm a straight Black man, the dems dont have ANYTHING for me


I've been ignored for Pedro and his ghay handler.

Healthcare doesn't affect you or your family? Tax policy doesn't affect you or your family? Abortion/women's rights to their own body and the weird psuedo-religous Y'all Qaeda bullshit from the right doesn't affect you or your family? Gerrymandering doesn't affect you or your family? Etc etc?

Dems are far from perfect and I agree we need a third party or more to really change things fundamentally but this thing some of y'all brothers do where you pretend "both parties are just as bad" is honestly fucking nuts

 

[sharkbait28]

 

[Soul On Ice]

Healthcare doesn't affect you or your family? Tax policy doesn't affect you or your family? Abortion/women's rights to their own body and the weird psuedo-religous Y'all Qaeda bullshit from the right doesn't affect you or your family? Gerrymandering doesn't affect you or your family? Etc etc?

Dems are far from perfect and I agree we need a third party or more to really change things fundamentally but this thing some of y'all brothers do where you pretend "both parties are just as bad" is honestly fucking nuts

Miss me with the tide lifting all boats rhetoric breh. I'm not political naive like these others on here

 

[sharkbait28]

Miss me with the tide lifting all boats rhetoric breh. I'm not political naive like these others on here

But you are bruh. It's not about rhetoric but reality. In your day to day life you're able to dispassionately assess the difference between less than ideal options. When it comes to politics you shut that essential adult part of your brain off for some reason. What is that if not naive? I'm not here to pretend Dems are great, I was one of the few folks posting critically about the Obama admin during his tenure.... but it's clear one party is objectively worse. Yall are tripping